Rhinoceros – Rinoceronti

Rhino destiny

In Asia the rhino horn market is thriving. In Vietnam the last rhino species has disappeared more than one year ago.

Obviously, the purpose of poaching has an economic root: just considering that a rhino horn can fetch up to 90.000 euros per kilo on the black market.

Rhino horns are used in the Arab countries for intricate knife handles, while in China it is used as the main ingredient for aphrodisiac mixtures.

The guards of the national parks risk their lives every day by fighting the hordes of poachers. Record number of rhinos killed by poachers must be regularly updated. Today in Africa there are living about 25.000 rhinos, 20.000 of which are white and about 5.000 are black.

The country with the highest number of killed animals remains South Africa (currently already 730). The numbers of killed rhinos has exceeded that of newborns.

If conservation polices will be not enforced quickly worldwide, we will soon see the final extinction of wild rhinos.

And when rhinos will be gone, then we will start hunting elephants and tigers and so on, until there will be nothing on the planet.

At that point man, like a parasite only interested in feeding himself and not worrying about the damages of his bad behaviour, will kill the planet and the natural resources for the human race.

Today rhinos are like never before in need to be saved with anti-poaching forces.